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| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the gravesite of Sparky, with four men carrying the co... |
| Date: | 04 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Casket and flowers at cemetery for the funeral of Lorraine V. McGraw. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth. |
| Date: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t... |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Funeral cortege of veteran Frank "Bud" Willman at the railroad depot in Edgerton. The cortege included a color guard, Legionnaires and marching men of the... |
| Date: | 05 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing suits and hats are placing a coffin into the back of an International D-2 hearse marked: "Doom Bros." The hearse is parked in front of a la... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
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| Description: | The caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and his son Glenn, Jr. are carried up the steps of the Monona Avenue entrance to the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a funeral ceremony at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. A group of veterans march before a horse-drawn vehicle pulling a coffin on ... |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads a wooden box containing a casket onto the back of a Model 33 International truck owned by the National Casket Company. |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
| Date: | 08 24 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James C. Jantz, wife of the slain policeman, holding the arm of her mother, Mrs. Roger Keith, and leaning on the shoulder of her brother, Jerome Boyer... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A dilapidated grave near Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store and Sturgeon Lake. The coffin is covered with birch bark. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A detail of a grave at an Indian village by Namakan lake. There is a box containing various tokens by the wooden coffin. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The wife of Prince August Wilhelm, accompanied by the wife of General Fieldmarshall Hindenburg, are attending the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin State Journal staff carry the coffin bearing the body of editor Roy L. Matson from St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Rector Rob... |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | The Armistice Day parade is heading down Main Street. This float shows German Kaiser Wilhelm II's coffin. A group of joyful men and woman are riding on the... |
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